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Private Lessons is the title of an American comedy film released in 1981. The film starred Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Eric Brown, and Ed Begley Jr.. Sylvia Kristel (born September 28, 1952 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is a Dutch actress and model. ...
Howard Hesseman Howard Hesseman (born February 27, 1940 in Lebanon, Oregon) is an American actor. ...
Eric Brown (born May 25, 1960) is a science fiction author who has written (amongst others) Meridian Days (1992) and Engineman (1994). ...
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The plot of the film is rooted in European sex farce, with a teenage fantasy twist. Brown plays Philip, the 15-year-old son of a rich businessman (Begley). Kristel is a sexy French housekeeper named Nicole with whom Brown's character becomes infatuated. Unknown to Philip, Nicole and a crooked chauffeur played by Hesseman are in fact co-conspirators in a blackmail plot. Nicole sexually seduces Philip and the plan is hatched when she fakes her own death after a night of lovemaking; the idea being to drain Philip's trust fund. But the plot begins to unravel when Nicole starts to fall in love with her victim. Blackmail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
In common law legal systems, a trust is a relationship in which a person or entity (the trustee) has legal control over certain property (the trust property or trust corpus), but is bound by a fiduciary duty to exercise that legal control for the benefit of someone else (the beneficiary...
Released in 1981, Private Lessons was at the time of release and remains today controversial for its plotline which involves a sexual relationship between a boy in his teens and the 30-something Nicole (although this isn't the first American film to explore this -- see Summer of '42).[citation needed] It was one of Kristel's only major American film appearances (she was best known for her Emmanuelle films in Europe). The movie has gone on to achieve cult film status and in early 2006 a 25th anniversary DVD release was issued in North America. Summer of 42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age motion picture drama based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. ...
Kristel stepped away from the role in the 1980s, yielding to younger actresses, although she continued to make cameo appearances as an older Emmanuelle in a number of films. ...
Cult film is a colloquial term for a film that has accrued a small but devoted group of fans, having failed to achieve any notoriety outside that group. ...
Producer R. Ben Efraim would produce a number of Private... movies over the next decade, including another cult favorite, Private School in 1983, and two in-name-only sequels to Private Lessons in 1993 and 1994.
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